dir. Leslie Harris

1992 // 1 hr 32 mins // Digital Projection

Staring: Ariyana A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Karen Robinson

Written & Directed by Leslie Harris. Black girlhood coming-of-age drama in 1990's Brooklyn.

Chantel is a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn who dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted. Chantel gets sidetracked when her new boyfriend gets her pregnant in Leslie Harris’s pioneering independent film. 

Purposefully rejecting the violent “street” films of the early 1990s- Instead, we get a film in which the main character is a flawed, good-hearted Black woman whose dreams are potentially derailed by real, adult decisions. Avoiding horrific clichés, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. addresses key social issues of the 1990s like abortion, HIV/AIDS, racism, and sex education via outspoken, vibrant characters.